Food searching strategy of amoeboid cells by starvation induced run length extension

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2009, Pages

  Van Haastert, Peter J M ^a   Bosgraaf, Leonard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC GMP; PHOSPHOLIPASE A2;

AMOEBA; ARTICLE; CELL MOTION; DICTYOSTELIUM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD; NONHUMAN; PSEUDOPODIUM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STARVATION; ANIMAL; ENZYMOLOGY; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; BOMBUS (GENUS); DICTYOSTELIUM; PILOPHORUS WALSHII; PSEUDOPODA;

ANIMALS; CYCLIC GMP; DICTYOSTELIUM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; PHOSPHOLIPASES A2; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STARVATION;

EID: 69949109746     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0006814     Document Type: Article

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